很多年前，我的猎头公司有一位候选人，当时已经快要拿到一个外企的offer了。根据正常流程，HR要求他出示银行流水来确认一下他的工资。这再正常不过了，对吧？但他当时解释了很久，说自己的工资有一部分是车贴、电话卡等等，不算在工资总数里。所以流水单上的工资不是他报给HR的数字。HR就说了，没关系啊，那就提供加上补贴的总数，其他数字遮住就行了。

但这位看起来很好的候选人突然就发飙了。他说“他们怎么敢这样！”“这也太不专业了吧！”“我从来没听过还有这种要求！”“什么公司啊连自己员工都不信任！！！” 我当时就立马知道他肯定谎报了工资。他拿不出流水单。

明明这是挺简单的事情，你为什么要这么激动的？这个候选人之后就再也没接过我们的电话了，但他之前明明很期待可以进这家公司的。说实话，我们之前也碰到过一些因为谎报工资而错失良机的候选人。我对这个人印象深刻是因为，他太抓马了，还反咬一口，搞得像是公司不厚道一样。我当时应该发个消息给他：今年奥斯卡归你好不好。

A few years ago, my recruitment firm worked with a candidate who reached the offer stage with one of our multinational clients. As is their normal process, the HR asked the candidate to show them a payroll slip, just to verify his current monthly salary. No big deal, right? But when asked, the candidate went into a long, complicated explanation that the monthly salary he claimed was actually partially paid to him through expense reimbursements, taxi cards, and a mobile phone allowance. So he couldn’t produce a payroll slop with the amount he claimed. The HR said, that’s all right. He could just send a bank statement that showed the approximate monthly amount on it. He could black out all the other numbers.

All of a sudden, the candidate went from being the nicest guy to being extremely hostile. “What? How dare they!” “This is incredibly unprofessional!” “I have never heard of such a thing!!!” “What kind of company doesn’t trust their employees!!!” In my mind, I immediately thought, this guy lied about his salary. He can’t back up the numbers he claimed. 

Because why would you get so agitated if you could easily meet the request? Sure enough, the candidate stopped responding to our calls. Odd, given that he was so excited about this company’s opportunity. Actually, we’ve seen other candidates similarly lie about their salary and end up having to give up an opportunity they really wanted. I remember this guy though, in particular, for his dramatic attempt to completely turn the situation around. As if the company was the one being unethically. I wish I’d left a message for him afterwards telling him he should get into acting!